Driver goes on hit-and-run tear throughout Seattle

A 36-year-old man is arrested after several hit-and-run collisions occurred throughout the city Wednesday followed by an attempted armed carjacking.

Detectives are still piecing together the timeline of events, but they believe the spree started about 3:30 p.m. in West Seattle. There, a man walked into a nursing home, knocked everything off a counter, shoved a walker at an employee and then drove off, reportedly driving on a sidewalk and getting into a hit-and-run along the way (this driver was the “runner”).

During the next hour, police believe the same man is connected to a hit-and-run in South Lake Union on Mercer Street and Dexter Avenue North, as well as at least one on Capitol Hill and and in the International District.

The man was later spotted in South Seattle, where he dumped his car and tried to carjack another person at knifepoint. After failing in that venture, police found the man near Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South and South Walked Street and detained him.

Detectives are still working to determine the total damage inflicted during the rampage.